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Monday, July 12, 2010

Lavender Sugar, Butter and Salad Dressing - Blue Monday

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...While folks more sensible than Bob and I were enjoying their air conditioned homes or breezy decks, we were traipsing through fields of lavender doing our part to make the Oregon Lavender Festival a success. Our intent was to tour several operations and find a good local source for culinary lavender. I was easy to spot. Fair skin demands full sun protection on these hot sunny days. I was the gal who looked liked a bee keeper. High temperatures and blazing sun aside, we had a glorious day, met some kindred spirits and even picked up a few recipes that I can share with you today. The recipes are very easy to make and use less lavender than many of the recipes floating in cyberspace. Lavender has a distinctive taste that borders on bitter if too much of it is used. If you like its flavor, you might want to increase the amounts I have suggested in each of the recipes below. The first recipe is for lavender sugar. I've also included recipes for lavender butter and a salad dressing. I use dried flower buds in all these dishes because of the seasonal nature of fresh lavender. If you'd like to dry your own lavender, instructions can be found here. English lavender is the best to use for culinary purposes. Here are the recipes.

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Oh Thank you for sharing such wonderful lavender recipe. I have to agree with you that it's not a good idea to add extra lavender to the baking or cooking. Has to be the right amount! I still have a gigantic packet of lavender which was sent to me by Pam @The Gypsy Chef. Hope you're having a wonderful blue Monday with your lavender.Blessings, Kristy

I love the scent of lavender...I have bath soap, shower cream, shampoo all in the scent of lavender:P Yet to try it in a recipe though. Probably because it's hard to find here. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Ohhhhhhh Mary, first let me thank you for your kind words...I am new at this blogging thing.....lavander......I've once saw a field of lavander traveling through Hungary and to this day I can still remember going by field after field of beautiful colors (saw it from a car)...what a wonderful experience you had...brings back memories

I wish that I was there at the Oregon Lavender Festival! I love lavender, I use it a lot, especially the oil for burns, when I am in the kitchen (i get burned a lot!). And for desserts...but I never used it for a salad dressing, thank you for sharing it!

Dear Mary, I received my first blog award today, so I am sending it to you and thanking you for the inspiration to start my blog...stop by my blog to collect the award...stilll thinking about the lavander....

This is a lovely post. I love lavender.....smells so soothing, calming and good. At one point everything I used was almost all lavender! Great to know that you can use it as food. Thanks for sharing this beautiful recipe.

I'm getting some lavender in the mail soon that I won in a blog giveaway and need ideas for what to do with it. Thanks so much for sharing this! Perfect timing. I can just imagine you in your beekeeper get-up. So cute :P

how interesting! Here in Croatia lavender is quite popular but I was not aware to use it in food. here lavender is mainly used as an aromatic. the only thing I have seen is lavender honey and the lady selling it said it really didn't have lavender rather it was the honey gathered from bees feeding on the lavender.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for your very sweet comments. You made my day! You have a lovely blog too, what gorgeous photos and wonderful recipes. I've never cooked with lavender before, how interesting. Have a wonderful week!

Your pictures of the lavender fields are absolutely gorgeous! I recently made lavender sugar too (I used it in a recipe for lavender shortbread)...it's scent is so lovely! I would love to try the butter and dressing!

I really had no idea you could use lavender in any kind of food. Wow. I have eaten candied rose and violet petals...my French teacher brought them from her annual trip to Europe...very interesting and your pictures and beautiful and soothing. Thanks for the information....again, wow.

I always said that I'll rinse my eyes looking at the arrays of blue...however, having it in my food...not much of a fan. Although for those who would like to try...it seems like you've built up quite the directory of resources ;o)

BTW...the next time you stop by my place...there is something for you to pick up on my APPRECIATION page.

Wow, this really works for me. I have a bunch of lavender buds and only use them when I make lavender cookies (recipe at my blog). This puts a whole new perspective on them, thank you so much for sharing, will defo try the butter, yums!

Hello Mary, your trip to the lavender fields sounds awesome. I have never used lavender for making food, but I adore it for spraying lavender water on my pillow cases. Lavender soap etc. A heavenly smell. I have always wanted to visit lavender fields. One day. I am not sure I will eat it. smile.Hugs, Jeanne

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